ALEXANDER HATSIS, MD has served as our Medical Director since December 16, 2005. Dr. Hatsis has been a leading pioneer in the field of corrective vision surgery for nearly two decades. In 1995, he performed the first LASIK procedure in the northeast United States. Realizing the limitations of LASIK, in June 1996, with the assistance of Dr. Rozakis, Dr. Hatsis implanted the first posterior chamber phakic implant lens in North America.

In addition to his corporate responsibilities and his private medical private practice, Dr. Hatsis is currently the Director of Refractive Surgery, Senior Attending for Resident Training and Assistant Clinical Professor of Ophthalmology at the State University of New York, Stony Brook, NY. He also holds teaching positions at the Northport Veterans Administration Medical Center and the Nassau University Medical Center. Dr. Hatsis has been published in four textbooks, has authored over fifteen articles, and has been invited to speak at many conferences about refractive surgery and phakic implant lenses in the United States and abroad.

Dr. Hatsis is certified by the American Board of Ophthalmology and is a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons. He was awarded additional specialization certifications by the American Board of Eye Surgeons in Incisional Keratorefractive Surgery and Lamellar Refractive Surgery. Dr. Hatsis is a member of the American Academy of Ophthalmology, the New York State Ophthalmology Society, the International Keratomeilusis Study Group, the American Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgeons and is the past Vice President of the New York Keratorefractive Society.